#weapon

The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#aggravate #also #between #cases #create

To the extent that these advanced weapons or their components are treated as articles of commerce, perhaps for peaceful uses as in the Plowshare program, their cost would be well within the resources available to many large private organizations. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#articles #available #commerce #components #cost

The Iranian regime gives financial support to terrorist organizations all over the world, denies the Holocaust, and calls for the wiping the state of Israel from the map, while developing long-range missiles and trying to obtain nuclear weapon. ↗

— Moshe Katsav

#denies #developing #financial #financial support #gives

China is one of the world's greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#destruction #greatest #mass #nations #rogue

Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent. ↗

— Frantz Fanon

#fervor #weapon

National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction. ↗

— Jacques Chirac

#defense #direction #everything #goes #missile

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#human #human affairs #language #much #politicians

There's no way out," he announced with satisfaction, "and no amount of wishful dreaming will produce one. The demon won't go back in its bottle, the face-off is for ever, the embrace gets tighter and the toys cleverer with every generation, and there's no such thing for either side as enough security. Not for the main players, not for the nasty little newcomers who each year run themselves up a suitcase bomb and join the club. We get tired of believing that, because we're human. We may even con ourselves into believing the threat has gone away. It never will. Never, never, never." "So, who'll save us then, Walt?" Barley asked. "You and Nedsky?" "Vanity, if anything will, which I doubt," Walter retorted. "No leader wants to go down in history as the ass who destroyed his country in an afternoon. And funk, I suppose. Most of our gallant politicians do have a narcissistic objection to suicide, thank God. ↗

— John le Carré

#nuclear-weapons #russia #spy #war #dreams

I did an action series back in '97, and did very intense training; weapons, knives, hand-to-hand combat. The more an actor trains in that way, the more we can do on screen and the better it looks. Nowadays, they want the actors to do as much as possible and stunt doubles are primarily used for the dangerous things that aren't covered by insurance. ↗

— Melinda Clarke

#actor #back #better #combat #covered

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#male #sex #thoughtlessness #vindictiveness #war